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Released
2003 · FILM

A Tale of Two Sisters

Two sisters reunite at their family home after a mental‑institution release, only to confront a hostile stepmother and a series of inexplicable terrors that threaten to shatter their fragile sanity.

Our sorrow was conceived long before our birth.

Written by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
115 min
Language
KO
DramaHorrorMystery

Synopsis

Two sisters return home following their release from a mental institution, only to encounter unsettling events and a tense dynamic with their stepmother. As strange occurrences escalate, long-buried family secrets emerge, muddling the boundaries between reality and nightmare.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 55+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Im Pyo KoShot by Lee Mo GaeScored by Byung Woo LeeDesigned by Cho Keun HyunSound by Lee In GyuCostumes by Soo Kyung OkVFX by Wook Kim

Box Office

2003 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.1M

Budget$15.1M
Worldwide gross$1.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • A Tale of Two Sistersde
  • Janghwa, Hongryeonde
  • A Tale of Two Sistersen
  • Dos hermanases
  • Deux sœursfr
  • Two Sistersit

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